Learn how to build Shopify apps with “Shopify Application Development”, a book technically reviewed by Yours Truly

by Joey deVilla on July 24, 2014

Michael Larkin has been helping people build online shops with Shopify for years in all sorts of ways. He’s helped people set up shops, he’s taken stock Shopify stores and hot-rodded them with all sorts of customizations, and he co-authored one of the first Shopify apps, FetchApp, which makes it possible to sell downloadable digital goods with Shopify. He recently wrote Packt Publishing’s Shopify Application Development, a quick read that’ll walk you through the process of building Shopify apps with Ruby on Rails, following good practices like test-driven design while you’re doing it. Among the things you’ll do by following the book’s exercises are:

Learn how to configure your Rails development environment for building Shopify apps, testing them with RSpec and FactoryGirl, and deploying them to Heroku

Connect an app to Shopify, and work with Shopify’s API and Webhooks

Build both private apps for use by a single store, and public apps, which any number of stores can use

Publish your app to the Shopify store so that you can sell it to vendors and make some money for your efforts

It has a number of technical reviewers, including one you might have heard of:

I started reading this about a month ago. And with this II was able to create my first web app for Instagram video downloader on Famegoat. This ebook is mostly for ecommerce development but I built an app on ruby from this!